Syria Permanent Virtual Exhibition and Business Directory

Syria implements a comprehensive strategy in remodeling a centrally-controlled economy in line with open market principles.

The effort aims to break through financial and trade barriers, and revitalize weaker economic sectors and to spur both foreign direct investment and increased private domestic investment. The strategy is designed to create a fecund atmosphere for growth while staving off the economic inequalities endemic to many of the world’s market economies.

Nine private-sector banks have commenced operations in Syria since 2004, as have a number of insurance companies and financial services companies. In March 2009, many Syrian companies found a new home as trading began on the Damascus Stock Exchange (DSE). As of 2010, however, petroleum and agriculture still represent about 50% of Syrian GDP.

The Syrian government, is providing strong support to the country’s tourism industry, in order to make Syria’s economy more diverse. These efforts are bearing fruit, as evidenced by the European tour groups wending their way among the church spires, minarets and Roman columns of Old Damascus. Beyond Damascus, the country’s archeological sites, its Eastern-Lebanon Mountain Range and its Mediterranean beaches are also drawing tourists from the world over and sparking foreign investment in the Syrian tourism industry.

Education, particularly private education, is also seeing real growth, and some of the internationally-acclaimed educational institutions now providing classes and other services to the people of Syria include Choueifat School, the Montessori School, Syrian-German University and the University of Kalamoon.

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